I thought you were making a correction at first but this is a helpful comment for the metric folks, 31.16 feet is 9.5m 👍

In 1944 would it be controversial for someone to chant “Death, death to the SS!”? If people can’t see the genocide and see that military force against the genociding organization is necessary to stop it by now then they won’t be ‘brought to our side’ by using a kinder chant. It’s a type of civil disobedience, it brings more attention to the BBC and UK’s complicity in the genocide.

I’ve always been anti-capitalist but in a Big Sean song he said “money is the greatest drug” and I hadn’t really thought about it that simply, they really are just addicted to wealth and it warps the brain. The dynastic capitalist families have encouraged this delusion for generations, further entrenching their alternate worldview.

Who removed this? Death to the IDF is a call for defense, not a call for violence. Death to the IDF. The IDF is an organization. Death to that doesn’t have to mean violence. If the Israeli government would disband the IDF that would be a death of the IDF.

But let me be clear, soldiers committing genocide should be stopped by all means possible. Death to the IDF and the soldiers enacting genocide.

They sell bulletproof backpacks in the US for children, not uncommonly. Body armor has been recommended for serious protesters for a while. In 2020 numerous average people were shot by right-wing opposition at protests.

You are wrong, people are pissed and are willing to show it. Have you never felt serious about something in your life? He didn’t initiate the violence, the raids in his community from masked fascist goon squads started the violence. He is defending the people.

From what I’ve seen as well most fires aside from the Waymos were started by the flashbangs and smoke grenades the police were using.

Hey now don’t be unfair, they showed immense strength and resolve when they fixed systemic racism by wearing Kente cloth and kneeling in 2020. For the history books, this was the day racism in America was forever abolished:

I didn’t see much property damaged by protesters aside from ICE/DHS vehicles, but I did see numerous fires started by the munitions the nazis were using.

Fuck off Nazi, anyone with sense knows the difference between Zionism and Jews.

Abbas is not necessarily the best source to quote, that quote in particular was something like 30 years ago and he had clarified his stance later emphasizing the horrific crime against humanity that the holocaust was, but he sucks anyway and has very low approval in Palestine, with a reported 90% of Palestinians wanting him to resign. But it is unfortunate that antisemitism like you describe is very common in the Arab world.

This is pure conjecture but it could be possible Palestinians would have a more accurate view of the situation because of their proxmity and history and therefore have less explicit antisemitism versus anti-Zionism, recognizing the distinction.

They don’t see ‘jews’ attacking them and hate jews, they know what the IDF and the US is, of course there are likely antisemitic people there as there may be anywhere, but most people know the difference between Jews as a group and the people they see shooting and bombing them wearing the flag of Israel or the US.

Why do you think they wouldn’t make a distinction? Islamic texts reference Jewish and Christian prophets, they don’t just naturally automatically hate each other.

They lived together fine for many years. People are concerned about Palestinians because there is accepted scholarly consensus that they are being killed en masse in a genocide waged by Israel and supported materially by the US and it’s allies. Likely at least 100,000 Palestinian people have been killed since October 2023.This isn’t a competition for who is the most worthy victim historically between Muslims and Jews, innocent families, entire neighborhoods are being obliterated by Israel right now. Thousands of children are at risk of starving because of the total blockade by Israel. Many Jewish people disagree with what is happening and would prefer to share the space in peace.

Supporting Palestine and recognizing this as genocide has nothing to do with recognizing the horrors of the holocaust and feeling sympathy for the Jewish victims of antisemitism, they are not contradictory positions.

‘Pro-Israel figures’ as the headline says are the terrorists they are probably referring to, the ones threatening to kill people on a humanitarian aid mission.

How do you expect him to take a bite out of crime? I think he was just true to his word, police aren’t stopping the real criminals so he just got more serious.

There’s a famous quote from Schwarzenegger as CA governor where he said “It’s not a drug, it’s a leaf.”